We need to be honest with ourselves. We had major systemic problems in 2022 and were nowhere close to dominate in many areas. We didn’t blow teams out because we were deeply flawed.

-The OL has to be able to run block effectively. Bama isn’t Bama if it can’t run the ball consistently.
-Can the front 7 establish dominance at the LOS? Last year after some injuries up front it simply wasn’t a physically imposing DL group and the LB play was flat out suspect either due to scheme or personnel issues.
-Do we have a championship level QB?
-What in the world is happening with our WR group? They have to eliminate the drops and demonstrate we can get separation because last year that group was ineffective at times. Scheme? Personnel? Either way has to be fixed.

That’s a lot of questions, but the potential is certainly there to be a championship team.

This post was edited on 8/23/23 at 7:36 am

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Posted by antibarner

Member since Oct 2009

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Posted on 8/23/23 at 8:57 am to tide06

I think we will be better up front, certainly run blocking and with the backs Bama has if Milroe is the QB the ground game could be as good as anyones.

Look our QB won't be Bryce Young. We knew that starting last season for goodness sake.All I want to see is competence out of our QB's and receivers. Enough to keep safeties from cheating down to stop the run.

Our kicker is as good as there is and our punter is good.

Defensively Bama should be able to get after the passer . I thought our ILB play was putrid at times so it can only go uphillIMO I hope we are better at stopping the run and I believe the secondary ill be fine..Texas is supposed to have receivers everywhere and a solid QB so that will be a real test.

But the biggest improvement is..NO MORE THIRD AND GOLDING!

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Posted by HighTide_ATL

Member since Aug 2020

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Posted on 8/23/23 at 4:58 pm to tide06